wasn't sure if I was going to like a softer interpretation of yelena and nat because their relationship in the comics is way more antagonistic because of how the Red Room pitted them against each other. But!!! Good news!!! The film's more compassionate and empathetic take on their complex connection absolutely emotionally obliterated me! "we're both upside down", "she's only six", "I should have come back for you", "it was real to me too" HAHAHAHHAA woooow yeah good STUFF!! can't believe I paid to see a Black Widow film and got a complex portrayal of older sister/younger sister dynamics dealing specifically with the trauma, guilt, resentment and protectiveness you feel as an estranged and traumatised younger/older sister!! As someone who is both, I have cried over it 6 times in 48 hours hahaahaahhaa what the FUCK Cate Shortland really got me there, besties!! she was like "okay but what if after all that, they still remembered what they were to one another? what if it was the one thing they couldn't stop remembering?"
watching yang taking the hit for ruby and falling from her perspective in real time is absolutely fucking horrifying because it finally hits just how quickly it all transpired and how quickly yang fell
These are the other times that Such Arrogance plays in the show.
Explaining to Pyrrha about the Fairy Tales and Legends, why they keep everything in secret, about people trying to steal the power of the Maidens.
Right after this, Pyrrha accepts it. She says she'll become the Fall Maiden... And without knowing it, she signs her death sentence.
Then it plays again when Adam stabs Blake, and Yang attacks to protect her. And we all know what happens then.
And it also plays here.
Cinder kills Amber, becomes the full Fall Maiden and fights Ozpin. She ends up killing him as well.
And then, three volumes later.
It plays again when Adam reminded Yang of the Fall of Beacon. This is also right before he was stabbed to death by both Yang and Blake. He was arrogant, indeed, and look how it ended.
Such Arrogance is a theme that only plays when shit's gonna hit the fan, and when we hear it, it's warning us. It's basically a promise that blood will be shed.
Now, it played again.
Among other people, Cinder just killed Penny and Weiss (we know Weiss is not dead and Penny might not be really dead either because of the whole “I'm a part of you” thing, but still). Her little sisters, honorary or biological. The two people she probably cared about the most in the world.
“You are going to pay for everything you've done.”
This is not just the music warning the audience. This is Winter herself doing it. She's promising it. She's promising that next time she and Cinder see each other, blood is going to be shed. And the music is assuring us that it'll happen.
love how we were all so optimistic after the last ep that it was going to be ruby and weiss and blake choosing to go after yang because of The Power Of Friendship and instead we got….weiss watching all of her friends die and then dying herself as far as she knows